December 27, 2017 • 31 mins
In this special episode, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Ify Nwadiwe to discuss the most appropriate films and television shows of the 2017 year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special episode of
The Daily Like guys, what my name is Choll Brian,
and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my
co host, Mr Miles Gray. You sound really thrilled. I'm
thrilled as always be joined by my co host, Mr
(00:21):
Miles Gray. Is that too much? Too much sardiastic energy?
That was a very aggressive jack and we're thrilled to
be joined in our third seat by the hilarious if
everybody down with the Dailies. Guys, very excited to be
at today. I took you with Man's great. You know
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it's going to be a good day's cheating as well.
I like this new character. Yeah, I was hoping that
that would just go for the entire will. It might
have to. This is how I'm doing, but just without
either of us speaking, and he just kind of goes,
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uh So today we're giving out the geist ese for
uh the movie that captured the zekegeist. Yes, yes, yes,
yes yes, and we are we are the we are
the authority on this and the TV show that captured
the zeitgeist. Yes yes um ha ha ha ha bra
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and uh so we're gonna just run through a list
and then kind of debate the merits of of the
films on our list. We will not be talking about
Star Wars, uh, the Last Jedi, because we have a
separate episode coming up for y'all where we're going to
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talk about Star Wars with a couple other special guests. Um.
And also because it's not one of the movies that
captured the ze geist. It all did was enraged a
lot of neck beards, right exactly, and some people, you know, I,
which you could argue was appropriate to the year, but yeah,
it's it's not appropriate enough, as you will soon see
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because our list is lit. Uh. So let's start out
with the movie It, which kind of came out of nowhere.
You know that there was supposedly going to be a
boycott of the movie It because Stephen King was talking
spicy about Donald Trump, and so the Mega Army came
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out and we're like, alright, guys, you know what to do?
Make nobody see it? And then it came out and
was a monster hit. Uh. And what we've said time
and again, the MAGA effect on films and TVs that
are boycotted by that group of people, it's actually the
greatest endorsement. Apparently people seem to like to get behind it. Um,
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but it does seem appropriate to the cultural moment, Like
tell me, it seems like a movie where people are
scared of a clown who is actually killing people, even
though he looks sort of silly on the surface. And
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uh comes from are you describing just a sewer? You're
describing the president? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because we're
living in fear of a terrifying old white clown who
is just doing a bunch of damage to a young generation,
creating on people's fear. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, what it happens
on every eight years, they said in the movie, right right, yeah,
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you know, last year we had a black clown that
brought hope to the It's like, I don't know, this
is a weird turn, but all right, who just had
a big year in general, as we'll get to. Um.
But the big superhero movie of the year was undoubtedly
Wonder Woman. It was kind of the superhero movie that
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was just you know, an unqualified success killed that the
box office critics seem to like it. They actually let
a woman direct it, which uh, real crazy, real crazy
out there social justice warriors telling you the one DC
movie directed by a woman was a wonder Woman, and
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it is the one DC movie that turns out is
actually good. Yeah, how about it? So, and that seemed
to capture the moment of female empowerment, or maybe it
kind of presaged the whole me too movement a little bit,
like women stepping up, uh saying funck this patriarchy a
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little bit um because it came out at the beginning
of the summer and Weinstein didn't get taken down until
the four months later. But yeah, I mean I think
Wonder Woman was great. I think it was. It was
really nice to see a female superhero like have the
same aggressive quality these like normally female superheroes and films
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like reduced to like flying like psychics who didn't get
their hands like in ship. And it was dope to
just see just wrecked the ship out of like tanks
and stuff. I really, uh yeah, I think it's definitely
up there because when you look, I think it was
the second highest grossing film this year behind Beauty of
the Beast Beauty and the Beast, which we don't have
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to talk about because I don't think that. I mean,
Beauty and the Beast was the highest the best, and
I guess, even though we don't have it on our list,
I guess you can make an argument for like a
female protagonist being held captive by a like horrifying beastly
male is actually fairly appropriate for where we ended the year,
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even though Beauty and the Beast came out at the
beginning of the year. UM, so maybe that should be
on our list, but it's not. Um, And that's for children, right.
That's that's because when you also look, I mean again,
these aren't about what the highest grossing films are most
critic cly acclaimed. We're just trying to be like what
felt like, you know what the movie of the year
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the year? So you know how Time magazine has the
person of the year and sometimes you know, Obama wins,
but other times Hitler wins. And it's it's not whether
they're the best person, it's just they're the person that
like summed up the year that was most influential. That
when there's a history book that like has a picture
next to the year two thousand seventeen, this is the face.
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And that that's how what we're doing trying to do
with movies, like what is the movie that people will
think of when they think of this year. Um, and
you might as well go to the next one that
I think is the odds on consensus favorite, uh is
get Out. Um. I didn't want to start with it,
even though we have it first on our list, just
because that would have been too much. But yeah, get
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Out came out of nowhere, was a genuine cultural phenomenon,
was politically incredibly relevant. It um you know, had uh
black writer, director, uh star and you know, was about
the experience of being a black person in America in
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the modern world, and was just generally a really great movie.
I don't know, what do you guys think, Oh, it
was hands down my favorite. I think just the steps
to it also was amazing because we hear, you know, uh,
Jordan Peel is coming out with a horror movie, and
I think that a lot of people were like, what
this kind dude is doing a horror movie, And then
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when you see what it was, you could have never
guessed that he was going to do it and that
he was going to stick the landing so well it was.
It was unbelievable, and it was one of those things
like through film, right, it helped people understand like even
the subtle ways things can situations can be terrifying for
people of color, uh, and like really subtle, Like there
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are times like even as I was watching it, like
you forget that, like there are versions of of racism
that aren't so necessarily aggressive like fuck you you're black
or whatever, or like the subtle ways when people are like, Oh,
you're so cool man, that's cool brother, Like you know,
like oh, he's like you know that ship like when
the dad was doing I was like, yeah, Like I
had a lot of moments like that, like when you know,
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meeting you know, like when I would date white girls
meeting their parents are like, yeah, you're a cool guy.
Like this, They are very familiar things to it that
I was like, I hadn't I guess I did internalized
or hadn't really thought about and like that was It
was a great It was a great step for I
think people even kind of seeing just the nuances of
of what can be terrifying that, you know, I think
we're a little bit of scared for people over the years,
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and I think that coupled with a lot of the
events that happened this year. I think people just kind
of it seemed like they were waking up to at
least understanding what the black experiences like in this country
a little bit more. And I think that the film
really did a good job of doing being admired in
a way that is like fetishizing, like yeah, and in
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the start a lot of cool conversation. I remember that
there was an interview that uh, the lead actress, Alison Williams,
Brian Williams's daughter, people would stop her in the street
and be like, yeah, she was she was hypnotized though,
and then she'd be like, no, she was evil, and
it was like, oh no, but like her parents, you know,
because people were so inclined to think this beautiful white
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women is somehow been tricked into being evil, like they
want so bad to be like, no, she's a beautiful
white woman. There's no way she can be evil. And
I think that's that's a perfect analogy for these people
like Tommy Lauren and stuff that gets you go so
far and say so many hey, this things. I honestly
believe that if Tommy Lawren was saying the things that
she was and she was a man, she'd be like shunned.
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You know. I feel like you can only have one
Bill O'Riley Alex Jones, that's you know, then you're too crazy.
Like I feel like she doesn't get the same heat
as someone like Milo who's just like, yo, this dude's gross.
And I feel like it's because like she's this beautiful
white woman, so people are like willing to be like,
calm down, you're you're tripping right now. You know, she's virtuous.
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It's like this weird type of sexism where it's like,
um and just in terms of cultural impact, it was
the fourteen most successful movie of the year, which uh
put it ahead of Pirates of the Caribbean, cong Skull Island,
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Coco Cars three, War for the Planet of the Apes. Uh, so,
you know, it beat out a lot of blockbusters with
a budget of four point five million dollars. And then
Metacritic does this great thing. I am such a Metacritic
stand which is the lamest thing to be in the world,
but I do almost every day this week there's been
a Metacritic mention. I know, well, you know, it's just
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such a far superior product to Rotten Tomatoes. And people
still like when they talk about review aggregators, they go
directly to Rotten Tomatoes, which sucks, but uh so, Metacritic
does this thing where they like kohl a all of
the top ten movie lists of the year, and they
give three points for placing for being the critics first
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place movie, two points for being second place, one point
for being ranked third through tenth, and then point five
for being included on an unranked list with eleven to
twenty titles. And you know, they go through all of
the critics lists. The number five movies Don Kirk, four
is The Florida Project, three Call Me by Your Name
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to Lady Burdon. One is get Out. So get Out
is you know, despite being a cheap genre movie, really
just kind of captured the moment, captured, the captured the year.
Um So, moving on the Big Six was really solid
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comedy from Over the Summer that talked about race and
I don't know, I just had some great performances, really
good jokes. What do you guys think? I didn't see it?
Cool Girls trip um and did see it and School.
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It's a great movie that depicts an uh interracial relationship
and the troubles a young brown man has to deal
with trying to bring a white woman into his life
when his family does not We already talked about Get
Out in an arranged marriage, and it's very well done
and it's very funny, and Kumal is hilarious, and uh,
you guys are terrible for not seeing it. I saw it.
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I'm terrible. I thought, yeah, direct that at me, Anna
a real high percentage of the joke's land. But for
Zeke in terms of like cultural phenomenal, why do you
feel it? It's it's it's get it gets a mention here,
because it kind of came out of nowhere. It was like,
but it was all everybody was talking about, at least, uh,
you know, in certain circles for a couple weeks. I don't.
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I don't think it totally took over the entire zitegeist.
I think it was real popular and like comedy circles
and you know, l a New York scene. But I don't.
I don't know that it was, you know, the culture
defining moment that Get Out and Wonder Woman was. Oh
so it was. It was big in the coastal liberal
elite bubble, right right, I see, I see. The next
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movie is a comedy that I think like basically all
the jokes fucking Land Girls Trip. I thought it was
fucking great. Yeah. Yeah, and you know again a pretty
big hit that kind of came out of nowhere. Uh
and yeah, I don't know. It just worked really well.
It launched some new names, and you know, I showed
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us some old oldies, but goodies. I didn't see it.
The theme continues, but I will talk about the zeitgeist
effect in which how it's skyrocketed Tiffity Hattish into the stratosphere.
Like people finally were like, oh, this person's funny. It's like, yeah,
she's it's crazy. I remember, this is a fun story.
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I remember when we first had Tiffany Hattish on at
midnight and just seeing like Chris and the show run
to come in the next day and goes, she's gonna
be a start because she just lit the show up
in a way that you've just never seen before. She
kind of like commanded and dominated the room. And you
know what, it's real cool when you get to see
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like that lightbulb turn up within like you know that
happened for other people like Marcella Marcella ar Gayo when
she was on the show, Like people like, oh, man,
like this this is crazy. So like, you know, I
feel like you hear about that a lot, like in
Like Stories documentary, the podcast. It was crazy to watch
it be in the room first hit was like, oh
and that was before A Girl's Trip came. Yeah, it
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was before. So if you were a writer on at Midnight,
which was a Comedy Central show for many years and
Memorial in Memorial and it would have three comedians come
on and like compete to have the funniest and surs
I was hosted by a guy named Chris Hardwick. Yeah,
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but that so he was like, damn, she's yeah, she's
a genius, um if he was. One of the next
movies we had on the list was Itania as one
of the biggest, because yeah, I wanted to throw in
a movie that not only I think is great, but
was really representative of the year we've had. And what's
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crazy about it Tania is like you watch it and
you and it's based off the autobiography she wrote. And
one of the things I didn't know is that she
didn't actually break Nancy Kerrigan's knee, like abusive husband and
his s gooons that went and did it and threw
her under the bus. And it's that story of this
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and it's crazy to watch it because the end, at
the end, it kind of tells what she's up to
now and like she I think it's like she's teaching
some local class and she's living like a kind of
humble life. And it's interesting to kind of like watch
some someone get done wrong, see, like someone go through
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something and then they get no retribution. And I feel
like that's been this year where we've been like all
the proof has been shown, we know all the transgressions,
we know all the laws of constitution that the president
has broke, everyone in this camp has broke. There's been
talks of impeachment, and as a matter of fact, I
remember getting an email saying, uh that they promised that
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there will be an impeachment vote by Christmas. Christmas is
next week, and uh it has yet to happen. Going
to happen. Yeah, So so it's it feels like the
end of Titania, where it's like, yeah, we we know,
we know who did the wrong, who deserves the retribution.
But we're all going to be teaching a kayaking class
next year in Wisconsin and you'll, you know, shot at
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to Tanya Harding because I see you on v H
one from time to time like those animal shows, or
she's just like weighing in here like oh, Donny, there
you are. Well, you know it is what it is.
It is. So I guess in terms of films, for
the ones that we have seen on the list, again,
what captured the spirit? Are we gonna say, uh, do
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we need a drum roll? Or it We're just gonna
say it was get out get a check out the
alternate alternate ending? Oh yeah, I saw could you imagine
if that was angry like that wouldn't I wouldn't have
that would have broke me. Yeah, It's like I couldn't it. Uh.
But the alternate ending arguably uh sums up the year
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a little bit better than the ending, the happy ending,
because it would have blown your face. I don't even
want to split if you if you can't rent the DVD,
just check out that alternate, like watch the movie and
then watch the alternate, Like, don't even just watch the
alternated because I watched it like straight after and I
was like, man, if the movie ended like this, I
probably would have like just died inside. But the award
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for the best explanation of how a movie sums up
the year goes to Iffy and I Tanya because that
almost that convinced me that I Tania was the movie
of the year, even though I don't think that many
people saw it. But great explanation. If he we're gonna
take a quick break and then we're gonna talk about
TV shows and we're back. UH so big year in
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uh TV streaming UH and the show that we start
off with kind of had a big year at the Emmy's.
I think it was the first streaming UH specific show
that one for like Best TV Show, Handmade's Tale cleaned
up at the Emmy's. Yeah, did you guys watch it? Yeah?
It was pretty good. Definitely some yeah if it gave
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you a glimpse into a possible just op be in future.
It felt very much like of the moment, like to
the point that it was crazy that they had made
it before they knew the outcome of the election. But
I think everybody had a like extra sort of dimension
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of poignancy and like horror while watching it because of
the events that were taking place in the real world. Uh.
Next we have Rick and Morty, which definitely had a
cultural moment um. They added more diversity to their writer's room,
had probably their best season yet. Uh. Some of the
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best episodes in the history of Rick and Morty. Uh,
many of them written by women, and uh it also
summed up the year because it's fan base of partially
made up of neck beards kind of freaked out about
the fact that, uh, you know, women were being added
to the writer's room and how like people weren't smart
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enough to be its fan ends and how McDonald's didn't
bring back enough Sechuan sauce or something. I don't know. Uh,
there was like a near riot at the McDonald's I
think at some point, or that might have been an
overly sensationalized news story. But anyways, Rick and Morty was everywhere. Uh,
definitely one of my favorite TV shows of the year. Uh.
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I watched it sporadically early, but I didn't. I'm not, like,
I can't say I'm a Rick and Morty fan. I don't.
I don't think I could say I watch enough to
say either way to have a huge opinion on it.
But yeah, I feel like in terms of culture it
it got a lot of people talking, like through different events,
especially the Sechuan sauce thing, Like, it had a lot
of people being like, what the funk is Rick and
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Morty and who are these people who are like rioting
in the parking lot? Yeah, I mean, look, I love
Rick and Morty was probably one of my favorite shows,
but it's one of the one another nerdy thing I
like that I have to distance myself from the fans
and it's and this time, it's like fans of Rick
and Morty are like fans of Immortal Technique. They think
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by watching the show they're smarter. They think that like
it makes them smart for partaking in this because someone
is saying this these faux smart things and you're like,
oh man, or these deep things. And it's one of
those weird things everyone who thinks they're a Rick or
the same as that person who like brags about being
like the Larry David from Curbs, Like you know that
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person is a piece of ship. Like that's the joke
is that someone can be this ship and the real
heroes of the show are the people that have to
deal with that person and how they deal with it. Um.
It reminded me of like back when before you guys
were born, when the Matrix first came out, people yeah,
we're like no, but do you you don't get it man, like,
what if it was all just like an illusion? I
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was like, yeah, no, no, ship, like that's what the
movie was. And that's a thought other people have had, Guys.
I still, uh yeah. I don't watch movies that came
out before I was born, so I have not seen anything. Well,
you sounds like, sounds awful. I remember the Matrix. I
was deep in the Matrix because the Matrix had that
PlayStation game where you played as two. You had a
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male or female protagonist, and there was the scene where, um,
I think was it Jada Pinkett or Halle Berry who
was in the seat Jada Jada would kiss the character
and the big thing was like, if you picked the
girl character, she kisses the girl because it was like
a cut seat. It wasn't like digital and and like
that was like the biggest thing to us, Like nerves
was like, oh you gotta pick the girl. I remember
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this game. I don't know the movie, but I remember
because I used to use my game Shark to have
unlimited bullet time when I play, and I would just
wreck the ship out of every level because I was
basically cheating. You weren't cheating, Basically, you were cheating Okay, sure,
I like to call it a game enhancer like they
market it. But anyways, shot out the game shark whever
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you're had, because I remember, like if you had bullet
Time Infinite, you just basically played the whole game in
slubo and killed everybody. Any Wait, let's move on, uh
to the next show, Game of Thrones. Uh yeah, I
mean I don't know if it sums up the year,
but it definitely it just consumes so much of people's
attention that I guess yet just by default it has
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to be on this list somewhat disappointing, sort of like
this year. Yeah, I guess, yeah it was. Yeah, there
were some rough episodes in there. Uh the ending was
to look spoiler alert and spoiler alert, spoiler alert spoiler alert.
Uh look when they were dragging the dragon straight up
out of the lake, how come there wasn't any tension
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on that chain? Anyway? Yeah, there's like ship Like also,
where the fund did the White Walkers get that chain from? Yo?
The White Walker depot? Right? Uh? Yeah, I I don't know.
It was definitely my least favorite season of Game of
Thrones to date. I mean I just like that ship
was finally starting to happen because I have been waiting.
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This was all happening too fast, which again a good
representation of this year, right. Ship was just constantly happening
like big things. Like they spent a whole season like
walking to a place, and then like this season it
was just like okay, and now we're gonna like run
back to the wall and like get the army to
like come back and like get flat fucking dragon Like
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that happened in the space of like five minutes in
the show. It was like, Yo, this used to take
like three seasons to do that much. Ship. Well have
you well have you seen George R. R. Martin? Have
you seen how he looks? Yeah, HBO is trying to
make sure they get this done before Yeah it happens
to George. Well yeah, there And there were some cultural parallels,
like weren't there like those rumored like Antifa posters that
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were like likening it to like fighting the White Walkers
and come fight the Whites. Yeah, I mean, I don't
know full on race war. The more we talk about this,
the more my least favorite season of Game of Thrones
yet might be the show of the year, just based
on all the ways it lines up just fighting the
brain dead whites. Yeah, and just look like this year,
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the fact that things that seemed like they would be
huge news stories in years past would just like go
under the radar because five other fucking things were happening interesting.
WHOA never thought, Okay, maybe we'll have to rise it
up a little bit on the Lost all right up next,
Big Little Lies. Ye, great show about women fucking up
an abusive man. Uh dope, summed up the zeitgeist, I
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think pretty pretty accurately. Did you guys watch it? Yeah?
I loved it. No, my my wife did she really
enjoyed it. Man, the show was so well edited to
like that was one of the shows I watched, and
I was even like, aside from the performances and the
directing and the music, the editing really like it made
flat the flashbacks more powerful and poignant. And I thought
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it was a fucking great great show. And you know, uh,
shout us to Zoe Kravitz too, Yeah, who apparently was
like playing way older than she actually was. I was
kind of surprised and like, y'all know, she's really young, Zoe. Uh.
When I went to Heartbreaks at the Hollywood Bowl, she
played a golden woman for the show where she would
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just stand in the back during um Paranoid. I believe
really she was just covered in gold. She was like
covered in golden standing and she was like the sun
shining on Kanye. It was beautiful. So that's just how
I picture her spending her like off time, just covered
in gold, just like being amazing. Yeah, And the show,
I think again it was it for me as a man.
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It was it was a way to talk about like
domestic abuse and things like that in a way that
was very moving. And it wasn't just sort of like
you know, the typical portrayals and TV shows of like
an abusive husband's like he smacks a woman in yells
and like that sort of it. It like sort of
ends with the sort of physical altercation and not really
talking about the mental trauma or the the other dimensions
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of it. And I think that was an excitement to it. Yeah,
like all that stuff. Yeah, that they just sort of
it painted it in such a way that I think, uh,
you know, was was very moving. So I think again
just as a as a feed of TV making very
very good. Yeah. And then we're gonna go through the
last three quickly because we're kind of running out of time.
Stranger things too. You know, it definitely captured the zeitgeist
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when it came out, like it was a big deal.
It was sort of like I'd say, comparing it to
our music episode, it was like sort of the way
mask Off was like the only thing you heard for
a couple of months, Like this was like the show
everyone was talking about for a couple of months. But
I don't know, what do you guys? Can you think
of ways that it like captured the year overall, not
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necessarily other than those poor kids having to deal with
like their new celebrity status and having like weird adults
way out for them and yell at them for not
wanting to stop and talk to him, you mean, like
outside of the show rather than the content of the show. Yeah. Also,
I thought, like, how did Millie Bobby Brown like age
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like nineteen years quick tween seasons? Like she looks so different.
It's just funny to watch these kids like grow up
very quickly because they're at that age too, where like
your face is like it's not the same six months
right now or whatever. But I guess in terms of
capturing the zite guys. I mean sometimes I feel like
we're living in the fucking upside now, right, and I
feel like we're all aging like presidents, Like we're all
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aging too fast because of how stressful the world is. Uh,
we're aging like presidents, and he's aging like a normal person. Yeah,
that's that's what I was saying. It doesn't feel like
he's dealing with any stressing, especially like do you believe
how much McDonald's they let me. Uh. And then the
last two Riverdale and The Crown. I never saw Riverdale. Uh,
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those kids seem to like it. Though, them kids seem
to like it. I've seen a few episodes. It's I
didn't realize it was based off Archie, so like when
I started hearing them call each other character's names on
something like, I'm like, wait, what is this fucking Archie
and Josie and the Pussycats kid. Yeah, I was very popular.
Did a capture the zeitgeist bringing retro shipped back to
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the future? Maybe yeah, not for me. All right, Uh
so I'm gonna do a drum roll, And then on
three we're all gonna say what we think Our show
of the year was Ready one, two, three? Whoa council
has it. But Rick and Morty comes in second, and
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Anna looks confused. Uh and did you like big little lice? Yes?
All right, all right, that was not me doing an
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uh So today we're giving out the geist ese for
uh the movie that captured the zekegeist. Yes, yes, yes,
yes yes, and we are we are the we are
the authority on this and the TV show that captured
the zeitgeist. Yes yes um ha ha ha ha bra
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and uh so we're gonna just run through a list
and then kind of debate the merits of of the
films on our list. We will not be talking about
Star Wars, uh, the Last Jedi, because we have a
separate episode coming up for y'all where we're going to
(01:46):
talk about Star Wars with a couple other special guests. Um.
And also because it's not one of the movies that
captured the ze geist. It all did was enraged a
lot of neck beards, right exactly, and some people, you know, I,
which you could argue was appropriate to the year, but yeah,
it's it's not appropriate enough, as you will soon see
(02:07):
because our list is lit. Uh. So let's start out
with the movie It, which kind of came out of nowhere.
You know that there was supposedly going to be a
boycott of the movie It because Stephen King was talking
spicy about Donald Trump, and so the Mega Army came
(02:31):
out and we're like, alright, guys, you know what to do?
Make nobody see it? And then it came out and
was a monster hit. Uh. And what we've said time
and again, the MAGA effect on films and TVs that
are boycotted by that group of people, it's actually the
greatest endorsement. Apparently people seem to like to get behind it. Um,
(02:52):
but it does seem appropriate to the cultural moment, Like
tell me, it seems like a movie where people are
scared of a clown who is actually killing people, even
though he looks sort of silly on the surface. And
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uh comes from are you describing just a sewer? You're
describing the president? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because we're
living in fear of a terrifying old white clown who
is just doing a bunch of damage to a young generation,
creating on people's fear. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, what it happens
on every eight years, they said in the movie, right right, yeah,
(03:35):
you know, last year we had a black clown that
brought hope to the It's like, I don't know, this
is a weird turn, but all right, who just had
a big year in general, as we'll get to. Um.
But the big superhero movie of the year was undoubtedly
Wonder Woman. It was kind of the superhero movie that
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was just you know, an unqualified success killed that the
box office critics seem to like it. They actually let
a woman direct it, which uh, real crazy, real crazy
out there social justice warriors telling you the one DC
movie directed by a woman was a wonder Woman, and
(04:18):
it is the one DC movie that turns out is
actually good. Yeah, how about it? So, and that seemed
to capture the moment of female empowerment, or maybe it
kind of presaged the whole me too movement a little bit,
like women stepping up, uh saying funck this patriarchy a
(04:40):
little bit um because it came out at the beginning
of the summer and Weinstein didn't get taken down until
the four months later. But yeah, I mean I think
Wonder Woman was great. I think it was. It was
really nice to see a female superhero like have the
same aggressive quality these like normally female superheroes and films
(05:02):
like reduced to like flying like psychics who didn't get
their hands like in ship. And it was dope to
just see just wrecked the ship out of like tanks
and stuff. I really, uh yeah, I think it's definitely
up there because when you look, I think it was
the second highest grossing film this year behind Beauty of
the Beast Beauty and the Beast, which we don't have
(05:23):
to talk about because I don't think that. I mean,
Beauty and the Beast was the highest the best, and
I guess, even though we don't have it on our list,
I guess you can make an argument for like a
female protagonist being held captive by a like horrifying beastly
male is actually fairly appropriate for where we ended the year,
(05:44):
even though Beauty and the Beast came out at the
beginning of the year. UM, so maybe that should be
on our list, but it's not. Um, And that's for children, right.
That's that's because when you also look, I mean again,
these aren't about what the highest grossing films are most
critic cly acclaimed. We're just trying to be like what
felt like, you know what the movie of the year
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the year? So you know how Time magazine has the
person of the year and sometimes you know, Obama wins,
but other times Hitler wins. And it's it's not whether
they're the best person, it's just they're the person that
like summed up the year that was most influential. That
when there's a history book that like has a picture
next to the year two thousand seventeen, this is the face.
(06:28):
And that that's how what we're doing trying to do
with movies, like what is the movie that people will
think of when they think of this year. Um, and
you might as well go to the next one that
I think is the odds on consensus favorite, uh is
get Out. Um. I didn't want to start with it,
even though we have it first on our list, just
because that would have been too much. But yeah, get
(06:51):
Out came out of nowhere, was a genuine cultural phenomenon,
was politically incredibly relevant. It um you know, had uh
black writer, director, uh star and you know, was about
the experience of being a black person in America in
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the modern world, and was just generally a really great movie.
I don't know, what do you guys think, Oh, it
was hands down my favorite. I think just the steps
to it also was amazing because we hear, you know, uh,
Jordan Peel is coming out with a horror movie, and
I think that a lot of people were like, what
this kind dude is doing a horror movie, And then
(07:36):
when you see what it was, you could have never
guessed that he was going to do it and that
he was going to stick the landing so well it was.
It was unbelievable, and it was one of those things
like through film, right, it helped people understand like even
the subtle ways things can situations can be terrifying for
people of color, uh, and like really subtle, Like there
(07:56):
are times like even as I was watching it, like
you forget that, like there are versions of of racism
that aren't so necessarily aggressive like fuck you you're black
or whatever, or like the subtle ways when people are like, Oh,
you're so cool man, that's cool brother, Like you know,
like oh, he's like you know that ship like when
the dad was doing I was like, yeah, Like I
had a lot of moments like that, like when you know,
(08:17):
meeting you know, like when I would date white girls
meeting their parents are like, yeah, you're a cool guy.
Like this, They are very familiar things to it that
I was like, I hadn't I guess I did internalized
or hadn't really thought about and like that was It
was a great It was a great step for I
think people even kind of seeing just the nuances of
of what can be terrifying that, you know, I think
we're a little bit of scared for people over the years,
(08:39):
and I think that coupled with a lot of the
events that happened this year. I think people just kind
of it seemed like they were waking up to at
least understanding what the black experiences like in this country
a little bit more. And I think that the film
really did a good job of doing being admired in
a way that is like fetishizing, like yeah, and in
(08:59):
the start a lot of cool conversation. I remember that
there was an interview that uh, the lead actress, Alison Williams,
Brian Williams's daughter, people would stop her in the street
and be like, yeah, she was she was hypnotized though,
and then she'd be like, no, she was evil, and
it was like, oh no, but like her parents, you know,
because people were so inclined to think this beautiful white
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women is somehow been tricked into being evil, like they
want so bad to be like, no, she's a beautiful
white woman. There's no way she can be evil. And
I think that's that's a perfect analogy for these people
like Tommy Lauren and stuff that gets you go so
far and say so many hey, this things. I honestly
believe that if Tommy Lawren was saying the things that
she was and she was a man, she'd be like shunned.
(09:43):
You know. I feel like you can only have one
Bill O'Riley Alex Jones, that's you know, then you're too crazy.
Like I feel like she doesn't get the same heat
as someone like Milo who's just like, yo, this dude's gross.
And I feel like it's because like she's this beautiful
white woman, so people are like willing to be like,
calm down, you're you're tripping right now. You know, she's virtuous.
(10:03):
It's like this weird type of sexism where it's like,
um and just in terms of cultural impact, it was
the fourteen most successful movie of the year, which uh
put it ahead of Pirates of the Caribbean, cong Skull Island,
(10:25):
Coco Cars three, War for the Planet of the Apes. Uh, so,
you know, it beat out a lot of blockbusters with
a budget of four point five million dollars. And then
Metacritic does this great thing. I am such a Metacritic
stand which is the lamest thing to be in the world,
but I do almost every day this week there's been
a Metacritic mention. I know, well, you know, it's just
(10:47):
such a far superior product to Rotten Tomatoes. And people
still like when they talk about review aggregators, they go
directly to Rotten Tomatoes, which sucks, but uh so, Metacritic
does this thing where they like kohl a all of
the top ten movie lists of the year, and they
give three points for placing for being the critics first
(11:09):
place movie, two points for being second place, one point
for being ranked third through tenth, and then point five
for being included on an unranked list with eleven to
twenty titles. And you know, they go through all of
the critics lists. The number five movies Don Kirk, four
is The Florida Project, three Call Me by Your Name
(11:31):
to Lady Burdon. One is get Out. So get Out
is you know, despite being a cheap genre movie, really
just kind of captured the moment, captured, the captured the year.
Um So, moving on the Big Six was really solid
(11:51):
comedy from Over the Summer that talked about race and
I don't know, I just had some great performances, really
good jokes. What do you guys think? I didn't see it?
Cool Girls trip um and did see it and School.
(12:12):
It's a great movie that depicts an uh interracial relationship
and the troubles a young brown man has to deal
with trying to bring a white woman into his life
when his family does not We already talked about Get
Out in an arranged marriage, and it's very well done
and it's very funny, and Kumal is hilarious, and uh,
you guys are terrible for not seeing it. I saw it.
(12:35):
I'm terrible. I thought, yeah, direct that at me, Anna
a real high percentage of the joke's land. But for
Zeke in terms of like cultural phenomenal, why do you
feel it? It's it's it's get it gets a mention here,
because it kind of came out of nowhere. It was like,
but it was all everybody was talking about, at least, uh,
you know, in certain circles for a couple weeks. I don't.
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I don't think it totally took over the entire zitegeist.
I think it was real popular and like comedy circles
and you know, l a New York scene. But I don't.
I don't know that it was, you know, the culture
defining moment that Get Out and Wonder Woman was. Oh
so it was. It was big in the coastal liberal
elite bubble, right right, I see, I see. The next
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movie is a comedy that I think like basically all
the jokes fucking Land Girls Trip. I thought it was
fucking great. Yeah. Yeah, and you know again a pretty
big hit that kind of came out of nowhere. Uh
and yeah, I don't know. It just worked really well.
It launched some new names, and you know, I showed
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us some old oldies, but goodies. I didn't see it.
The theme continues, but I will talk about the zeitgeist
effect in which how it's skyrocketed Tiffity Hattish into the stratosphere.
Like people finally were like, oh, this person's funny. It's like, yeah,
she's it's crazy. I remember, this is a fun story.
(14:04):
I remember when we first had Tiffany Hattish on at
midnight and just seeing like Chris and the show run
to come in the next day and goes, she's gonna
be a start because she just lit the show up
in a way that you've just never seen before. She
kind of like commanded and dominated the room. And you
know what, it's real cool when you get to see
(14:24):
like that lightbulb turn up within like you know that
happened for other people like Marcella Marcella ar Gayo when
she was on the show, Like people like, oh, man,
like this this is crazy. So like, you know, I
feel like you hear about that a lot, like in
Like Stories documentary, the podcast. It was crazy to watch
it be in the room first hit was like, oh
and that was before A Girl's Trip came. Yeah, it
(14:45):
was before. So if you were a writer on at Midnight,
which was a Comedy Central show for many years and
Memorial in Memorial and it would have three comedians come
on and like compete to have the funniest and surs
I was hosted by a guy named Chris Hardwick. Yeah,
(15:07):
but that so he was like, damn, she's yeah, she's
a genius, um if he was. One of the next
movies we had on the list was Itania as one
of the biggest, because yeah, I wanted to throw in
a movie that not only I think is great, but
was really representative of the year we've had. And what's
(15:28):
crazy about it Tania is like you watch it and
you and it's based off the autobiography she wrote. And
one of the things I didn't know is that she
didn't actually break Nancy Kerrigan's knee, like abusive husband and
his s gooons that went and did it and threw
her under the bus. And it's that story of this
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and it's crazy to watch it because the end, at
the end, it kind of tells what she's up to
now and like she I think it's like she's teaching
some local class and she's living like a kind of
humble life. And it's interesting to kind of like watch
some someone get done wrong, see, like someone go through
(16:09):
something and then they get no retribution. And I feel
like that's been this year where we've been like all
the proof has been shown, we know all the transgressions,
we know all the laws of constitution that the president
has broke, everyone in this camp has broke. There's been
talks of impeachment, and as a matter of fact, I
remember getting an email saying, uh that they promised that
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there will be an impeachment vote by Christmas. Christmas is
next week, and uh it has yet to happen. Going
to happen. Yeah, So so it's it feels like the
end of Titania, where it's like, yeah, we we know,
we know who did the wrong, who deserves the retribution.
But we're all going to be teaching a kayaking class
next year in Wisconsin and you'll, you know, shot at
(16:56):
to Tanya Harding because I see you on v H
one from time to time like those animal shows, or
she's just like weighing in here like oh, Donny, there
you are. Well, you know it is what it is.
It is. So I guess in terms of films, for
the ones that we have seen on the list, again,
what captured the spirit? Are we gonna say, uh, do
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we need a drum roll? Or it We're just gonna
say it was get out get a check out the
alternate alternate ending? Oh yeah, I saw could you imagine
if that was angry like that wouldn't I wouldn't have
that would have broke me. Yeah, It's like I couldn't it. Uh.
But the alternate ending arguably uh sums up the year
(17:40):
a little bit better than the ending, the happy ending,
because it would have blown your face. I don't even
want to split if you if you can't rent the DVD,
just check out that alternate, like watch the movie and
then watch the alternate, Like, don't even just watch the
alternated because I watched it like straight after and I
was like, man, if the movie ended like this, I
probably would have like just died inside. But the award
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for the best explanation of how a movie sums up
the year goes to Iffy and I Tanya because that
almost that convinced me that I Tania was the movie
of the year, even though I don't think that many
people saw it. But great explanation. If he we're gonna
take a quick break and then we're gonna talk about
TV shows and we're back. UH so big year in
(18:33):
uh TV streaming UH and the show that we start
off with kind of had a big year at the Emmy's.
I think it was the first streaming UH specific show
that one for like Best TV Show, Handmade's Tale cleaned
up at the Emmy's. Yeah, did you guys watch it? Yeah?
It was pretty good. Definitely some yeah if it gave
(18:55):
you a glimpse into a possible just op be in future.
It felt very much like of the moment, like to
the point that it was crazy that they had made
it before they knew the outcome of the election. But
I think everybody had a like extra sort of dimension
(19:15):
of poignancy and like horror while watching it because of
the events that were taking place in the real world. Uh.
Next we have Rick and Morty, which definitely had a
cultural moment um. They added more diversity to their writer's room,
had probably their best season yet. Uh. Some of the
(19:36):
best episodes in the history of Rick and Morty. Uh,
many of them written by women, and uh it also
summed up the year because it's fan base of partially
made up of neck beards kind of freaked out about
the fact that, uh, you know, women were being added
to the writer's room and how like people weren't smart
(19:58):
enough to be its fan ends and how McDonald's didn't
bring back enough Sechuan sauce or something. I don't know. Uh,
there was like a near riot at the McDonald's I
think at some point, or that might have been an
overly sensationalized news story. But anyways, Rick and Morty was everywhere. Uh,
definitely one of my favorite TV shows of the year. Uh.
(20:22):
I watched it sporadically early, but I didn't. I'm not, like,
I can't say I'm a Rick and Morty fan. I don't.
I don't think I could say I watch enough to
say either way to have a huge opinion on it.
But yeah, I feel like in terms of culture it
it got a lot of people talking, like through different events,
especially the Sechuan sauce thing, Like, it had a lot
of people being like, what the funk is Rick and
(20:42):
Morty and who are these people who are like rioting
in the parking lot? Yeah, I mean, look, I love
Rick and Morty was probably one of my favorite shows,
but it's one of the one another nerdy thing I
like that I have to distance myself from the fans
and it's and this time, it's like fans of Rick
and Morty are like fans of Immortal Technique. They think
(21:03):
by watching the show they're smarter. They think that like
it makes them smart for partaking in this because someone
is saying this these faux smart things and you're like,
oh man, or these deep things. And it's one of
those weird things everyone who thinks they're a Rick or
the same as that person who like brags about being
like the Larry David from Curbs, Like you know that
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person is a piece of ship. Like that's the joke
is that someone can be this ship and the real
heroes of the show are the people that have to
deal with that person and how they deal with it. Um.
It reminded me of like back when before you guys
were born, when the Matrix first came out, people yeah,
we're like no, but do you you don't get it man, like,
what if it was all just like an illusion? I
(21:49):
was like, yeah, no, no, ship, like that's what the
movie was. And that's a thought other people have had, Guys.
I still, uh yeah. I don't watch movies that came
out before I was born, so I have not seen anything. Well,
you sounds like, sounds awful. I remember the Matrix. I
was deep in the Matrix because the Matrix had that
PlayStation game where you played as two. You had a
(22:10):
male or female protagonist, and there was the scene where, um,
I think was it Jada Pinkett or Halle Berry who
was in the seat Jada Jada would kiss the character
and the big thing was like, if you picked the
girl character, she kisses the girl because it was like
a cut seat. It wasn't like digital and and like
that was like the biggest thing to us, Like nerves
was like, oh you gotta pick the girl. I remember
(22:33):
this game. I don't know the movie, but I remember
because I used to use my game Shark to have
unlimited bullet time when I play, and I would just
wreck the ship out of every level because I was
basically cheating. You weren't cheating, Basically, you were cheating Okay, sure,
I like to call it a game enhancer like they
market it. But anyways, shot out the game shark whever
(22:54):
you're had, because I remember, like if you had bullet
Time Infinite, you just basically played the whole game in
slubo and killed everybody. Any Wait, let's move on, uh
to the next show, Game of Thrones. Uh yeah, I
mean I don't know if it sums up the year,
but it definitely it just consumes so much of people's
attention that I guess yet just by default it has
(23:14):
to be on this list somewhat disappointing, sort of like
this year. Yeah, I guess, yeah it was. Yeah, there
were some rough episodes in there. Uh the ending was
to look spoiler alert and spoiler alert, spoiler alert spoiler alert.
Uh look when they were dragging the dragon straight up
out of the lake, how come there wasn't any tension
(23:36):
on that chain? Anyway? Yeah, there's like ship Like also,
where the fund did the White Walkers get that chain from? Yo?
The White Walker depot? Right? Uh? Yeah, I I don't know.
It was definitely my least favorite season of Game of
Thrones to date. I mean I just like that ship
was finally starting to happen because I have been waiting.
(23:57):
This was all happening too fast, which again a good
representation of this year, right. Ship was just constantly happening
like big things. Like they spent a whole season like
walking to a place, and then like this season it
was just like okay, and now we're gonna like run
back to the wall and like get the army to
like come back and like get flat fucking dragon Like
(24:18):
that happened in the space of like five minutes in
the show. It was like, Yo, this used to take
like three seasons to do that much. Ship. Well have
you well have you seen George R. R. Martin? Have
you seen how he looks? Yeah, HBO is trying to
make sure they get this done before Yeah it happens
to George. Well yeah, there And there were some cultural parallels,
like weren't there like those rumored like Antifa posters that
(24:40):
were like likening it to like fighting the White Walkers
and come fight the Whites. Yeah, I mean, I don't
know full on race war. The more we talk about this,
the more my least favorite season of Game of Thrones
yet might be the show of the year, just based
on all the ways it lines up just fighting the
brain dead whites. Yeah, and just look like this year,
(25:01):
the fact that things that seemed like they would be
huge news stories in years past would just like go
under the radar because five other fucking things were happening interesting.
WHOA never thought, Okay, maybe we'll have to rise it
up a little bit on the Lost all right up next,
Big Little Lies. Ye, great show about women fucking up
an abusive man. Uh dope, summed up the zeitgeist, I
(25:25):
think pretty pretty accurately. Did you guys watch it? Yeah?
I loved it. No, my my wife did she really
enjoyed it. Man, the show was so well edited to
like that was one of the shows I watched, and
I was even like, aside from the performances and the
directing and the music, the editing really like it made
flat the flashbacks more powerful and poignant. And I thought
(25:48):
it was a fucking great great show. And you know, uh,
shout us to Zoe Kravitz too, Yeah, who apparently was
like playing way older than she actually was. I was
kind of surprised and like, y'all know, she's really young, Zoe. Uh.
When I went to Heartbreaks at the Hollywood Bowl, she
played a golden woman for the show where she would
(26:10):
just stand in the back during um Paranoid. I believe
really she was just covered in gold. She was like
covered in golden standing and she was like the sun
shining on Kanye. It was beautiful. So that's just how
I picture her spending her like off time, just covered
in gold, just like being amazing. Yeah, And the show,
I think again it was it for me as a man.
(26:31):
It was it was a way to talk about like
domestic abuse and things like that in a way that
was very moving. And it wasn't just sort of like
you know, the typical portrayals and TV shows of like
an abusive husband's like he smacks a woman in yells
and like that sort of it. It like sort of
ends with the sort of physical altercation and not really
talking about the mental trauma or the the other dimensions
(26:53):
of it. And I think that was an excitement to it. Yeah,
like all that stuff. Yeah, that they just sort of
it painted it in such a way that I think, uh,
you know, was was very moving. So I think again
just as a as a feed of TV making very
very good. Yeah. And then we're gonna go through the
last three quickly because we're kind of running out of time.
Stranger things too. You know, it definitely captured the zeitgeist
(27:17):
when it came out, like it was a big deal.
It was sort of like I'd say, comparing it to
our music episode, it was like sort of the way
mask Off was like the only thing you heard for
a couple of months, Like this was like the show
everyone was talking about for a couple of months. But
I don't know, what do you guys? Can you think
of ways that it like captured the year overall, not
(27:37):
necessarily other than those poor kids having to deal with
like their new celebrity status and having like weird adults
way out for them and yell at them for not
wanting to stop and talk to him, you mean, like
outside of the show rather than the content of the show. Yeah. Also,
I thought, like, how did Millie Bobby Brown like age
(27:58):
like nineteen years quick tween seasons? Like she looks so different.
It's just funny to watch these kids like grow up
very quickly because they're at that age too, where like
your face is like it's not the same six months
right now or whatever. But I guess in terms of
capturing the zite guys. I mean sometimes I feel like
we're living in the fucking upside now, right, and I
feel like we're all aging like presidents, Like we're all
(28:21):
aging too fast because of how stressful the world is. Uh,
we're aging like presidents, and he's aging like a normal person. Yeah,
that's that's what I was saying. It doesn't feel like
he's dealing with any stressing, especially like do you believe
how much McDonald's they let me. Uh. And then the
last two Riverdale and The Crown. I never saw Riverdale. Uh,
(28:42):
those kids seem to like it. Though, them kids seem
to like it. I've seen a few episodes. It's I
didn't realize it was based off Archie, so like when
I started hearing them call each other character's names on
something like, I'm like, wait, what is this fucking Archie
and Josie and the Pussycats kid. Yeah, I was very popular.
Did a capture the zeitgeist bringing retro shipped back to
(29:03):
the future? Maybe yeah, not for me. All right, Uh
so I'm gonna do a drum roll, And then on
three we're all gonna say what we think Our show
of the year was Ready one, two, three? Whoa council
has it. But Rick and Morty comes in second, and
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Anna looks confused. Uh and did you like big little lice? Yes?
All right, all right, that was not me doing an
impression either. All right, that's gonna do it for our
GEISTI for movie and TV show of the year. If
you where can people follow you? You can catch you
boy at if you wy the way I fly in
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w A d I w E on Twitter and Instagram
and if d s I f the easy on the twitch.
Let's get it in miles where can people follow you? You
You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at miles
of Gray. And again, you guys, this is just uh,
it's just our thoughts on it, So don't come for me.
I'm this vacation time. This is an invitation for you
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guys to share your thoughts. But don't share them as
in it's wrong. I don't have time. I'm already dealing
with trying to install this new these Christmas gifts. I
got the one thing that I got intalled these Christmas gifts.
Uh get it was a light fixture, so it was
what I wanted them. We don't worry about that anyway.
Worry about your own presence and you don't enjoy your
break too all right. Uh, you can follow me a
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